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Can you taste the integrity?

Several months ago, we knew the president wanted to kill Social Security somehow, but he wouldn’t tell us what his plan was. Back then, the Heritage Foundation was backing across the board price indexing. The Cato Institute had this plan that would have forthrightly eliminated Social Security. Then Bush said he wanted “progressive” indexing. And — like magic — Cato and Heritage now support just that. The White House sure is persuasive!

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